Animal trap



rammed Jan. 3o, y1923. i y ysggg FRANK A. ARIENS AND WALTER WAGNER, OF SEOX CITY, IOWA.

l ANIMAL maar.

Application filed March 15, 1922.' SerialyNo. 544,009.

To all whom it may concer/a:k to drive the animal onto the downwardly Be it known that we, FRANK A. Amiens tilting portion of the platform when it has and. WALTER A. WAGNER, citizens of the partially entered thereupon. This means United States, and residents of Sioux City, comprises a wire, lgpivoted at the entrance 55 5v in the county of Woodbury and State of end of the trap, as at i5, to the base, 3. The Iowa, have invented certain new and useful said wire projects through anopening, 16, Improvements in` Animal Traps, of which in the adjacent endof the platform, lg and the followingis a specification. normally rests adjacent thecupper side of y Our invention contemplates an improved the platform. The free end portion of the eo animal. trap of the vtype having a tilting wire, la, is bent at an angle, as l?, and

platform which precipitates the animal` normally projects into openings, 18 and 19, therebelow. f in the platform and base, respectively.

Another object of the ,invention is the It will now be evident that animals enproduction of an improved animal trap intering the trap, attracted by the bait, 9, will 65 l5 expensive in productionv yet durable and tilt the platform to position shownv in dotthoroughly efficient in operation. y ted lines and thereby be precipitated below The invention will be clearly understood the platform. bviously, the base, 3, is from the following description, reference intended to he` supported on a receptacle being had to the accompanying drawings suitable to receive the animals when thus 70 2O which form a part of this application and precipitated. As the animal passes the pivin which like characters of reference indiotal point, 5, upon the platform, it is evicate corresponding parts in both views, of dent the free end of the wire, lhwill swing` f which, upwardly with the slightest tilting move` F ig. l is a plan of a trap constructed in ment of the platform. This upward move- 75 accordance with our invention, a portion ment of the wire, 14, so frightens the anibeing out away, and n mal thatit will not run from the trap, but Fig. 2 is a longitudinal, vertical. section rather run toward the closed end thereof,

of the same. thus insuringy that it will be dropped Our device includes, essentially, a suitthrough theplatform. 80

able base-plate, 8, preferably of sheet metal. Having thus described our invention,

A tilting platform, 4, is provided, suitably what we claim as new and ydesire to securev pivoted, as at 5, to the base, 3. The base is by Letters Patent of the UnitedStates, is: `provided with an opening, G, below the por-` 1. An animal trap embodying a base tion of the platform at one side of the pivot, member, a platform pivoted intermediately 85 5, to permit the platform to be tilted as inthereon to tilt vertically, a wire pivoted yon dicatedin dotted lines. This opening, 6, the base, the upwardly tilting end of the is preferably provided by shearing a recplatform having an opening, and the wire tangular portion, 7, from the plate, 3, and being extended therethrough to normally bending such portion, 7 upwardly adjacent` layadjacent the upper side of the platform, 90 the end of the platform, between which land a stop on the free end of thewire to and an end wall, 8, or other suitable uprightk limit the tilting of the platform.

part secured to the base, 3, may be inter- 2. An animal. trap embodying a base `posed the bait, 9, which'is exposed through member, a platform pivoted interm'ediately a suitable opening, 10, inthe part, 7. The thereon to tilt vertically, a wire pivoted on trap may be provided with side walls, 1l, the base, the upwardly tilting end of the and a suitable cover, l2,.hinged, as at 13, to platform` having an opening, and the wire the side walls to swing upwardly to aifordr being extended therethrough, to normally access to the bait retainer. I At the entrance lay adjacent the upper side of the platform, end of the trap ywe provide improved means the free end portion of the wire being bent 100 for preventing the tilting of the platform at an angle to engage and limit tilting of beyond a determinate point and also serving the platform yand the platform and base `the Wire.

being plovided with noz-umlly regsteng openings to receive the bent end mton of 3. An anma trap embeyng an enciesul'e passage hzw 0 an open enc` and ine cludng a base, a. pato'm pvoed nermedately in the passage to tilt vetcay, and a Wire pivoted on the adjacent seid open end, the platform having im opening hfeugh which '4L-he 'wfe extems, the wire 10 being provided with a Siep Le engage and mtilting the piaf .n estmony Weleo, We have herelme sei em' hands vg-his h (my ef February, 1922.

FRANK A. ARIENS. 1WALTER A. WAGNER 

